Raxa JSS EMR Decision Support

Welcome! This is a space where we will collate, evaluate and implement decision support tools.

First step for adding decision support: drug contra-indications. To be implemented by Barry Levine's team in San Francisco, this module will exist in the back end, interact with pharmacy, and send alerts when a certain drug is prescribed with another that could cause harmful effects in tandem.

Relevant links:-

Studies of clinical decision support

• A paper by D Blumenthal et al explaining its relevance in HITECH

• A paper by Fahhad Farrukhi explaining why this is important

• 1997_Lobach_12625.pdf

• A book by Marc Berg

• A study of legal liability in the age of decision support

• They might have limited benefit in high-resource settings.

 Guideline Modeling Methods (GMMs) and Medical logic modules (MLMs)

• OpenClinical

  • Summary of many GMMs

  • Comparison of many GMMs

• Arden Syntax

  • Arden at OpenMRS

  • Open Source Arden2ByteCode compiler

• GELLO

  • Compiler

• HL7 FAQ

• DXplain at the Massachusetts General Hospital Lab of Computer Science

Please feel free to add to this repository!